I think that reading bad comics (as in Storytime of Pain, or most current Big 2 comics) is silly, especially when it becomes a habit.
You get to a point where people defend, even justify, bad comics only because worse comics exist, and other forms of mental gymnastics.
Reading bad comics is fun. They're fun to riff on with friends, and they make you appreciate the great comics even more.
It's even more fun to read good comics.
>they make you appreciate the great comics even more
What it does is trick more gullible readers into thinking lesser works aren't all that bad, which is backwards.
Some people pay for them knowing they're bad.
I never put forth that scenario. What I have noticed is people, in storytimes of new (bad) comics, saying something like
>at least it's better than [insert writer]'s run
or
>you can't say this is bad because [insert writer]'s run is bad
I dunno dude, laughing at All-Star Batman and Robin with my buddies is more fun that reading The Night Gwen Stacy Died by myself
All-Star Batman and Robin is a better comic than The Night Gwen Stacy Died.
What buddies?
I completely agree. Comics like that, Batman Odyssey, and Batman Fortunate Son are so hilarious.
>What buddies?
My IRL friends. I like reading terrible comics with them. What do you do with your friends, OP?
>are so hilarious
No, I mean better quality, not just more entertaining. The Gwen Stacy comic is melodramatic pablum, while ASBAR is a batshit reimagining. People will disagree, no doubt.
>What do you do with your friends, OP?
My friends don't read comics. I don't know anyone in real life that reads comic books that isn't selling them.
>shills
Could be.
Nah dude, The Night that Gwen Stacy died is better, but All-Star Batman and Robin is more entertaining.
>My friends don't read comics. I don't know anyone in real life that reads comic books that isn't selling them.
Then maybe you should try getting them into comics. That's what I did with my friends.
Agree to disagree.
>Then maybe you should try getting them into comics. That's what I did with my friends.
I did try, but they've got busy lives and little to no interest. One of my friends HATES reading fiction, especially in comic book form.
Reading bad comics is fine, but don't pay for them.
ok... show me a sop where anons were defending it by the end of the thread. it doesn't even have to be recent
He's probably still asshurt that people have changed their opinion on Spiderman; Reign. Last SDCC SOP a lot of anons turned around on that book
I'd never read Reign before that storytime and I was really surprised by how good it was. There's some genuinely great moments in it and, having read it, I don't get why it was completely written off as such a terrible comic for so long
Though yeah, the radioactive Spider-Jizz scene definitely drags it down, as does the fact that it's such a clear riff on The Dark Knight Returns
What's the old cliche
>You can build bridges, schools and hospitals
>But you frick one sheep and you're a sheep fricker forever
Spider jizz was just too memeable and it overshadowed everything else but I'm glad it's gotten a retrospective look and a sequel in the works. Hopefully Reign 2 is better than The Dark Knight Strikes Again
You're glad there's a sequel? Are you stupid?
Are you? Reign wasn't bad and more people are finally realizing that
That's fine. Reprint it. Don't make a fricking haphazard sequel.
I'll defend Girls any day of the week
Nah, that doesn't track, the only people who defend shit comics by pointing to other, even worse comics, are shills, who should be ignored.
Frick you for using the word storytime in an OP that isn't a storytime. If you understood how you're messing with people's filters you're a c**t, if you didn't you're a moron. Either way I hate you.
>You get to a point where people defend, even justify, bad comics only because worse comics exist, and other forms of mental gymnastics.
You're moronic, sometimes comics are wrongfully shit on for dumb reasons and deserve another look, shit people have finally realized Reign was actually okay. You also need to get some of the homosexuals around here to read actually BAD comics instead of thinking whaterver dogshit coming out is "the worst ever" when some REALLY bad comics and runs exist. Dumbasses need prospective
I can agree that too many readers tend to blow up the faults of a comic and judge far too harshly based on a few tiny components. However, a bad comic is a bad comic. You have to realize that the well is very deep.
I don't participate in Storytime of Pain and I haven't read Reign.
>However, a bad comic is a bad comic. You have to realize that the well is very deep.
And sometimes a "bad" comic is simply mediocre, hell most things Anon's around her consider "bad" aren't. People need a bar to measure against, objective samples of dogshit writing instead of personal biases and grievances against a writer for some "slight"
>CLEAN UNDERWEAR
What was the best Storytime of Pain?
Best comic in a Storytime of Pain?
Watchmen.
I forgot to mention this. There might be a fragment of jealousy as well, even if subconscious.
No, I mean best Storytime of Pain in terms of how much attention it got.
The Movement
Border Town
US War Machine 2.0
Can you link to the specific ones you're talking about?
https://desuarchive.org/co/
Learn to use your head and actually take a look yourself, dipshit.
Here.
Thanks.
What year?
The problem with reading too many bad comics is that it becomes "comfy" for you and you no longer seek out good stuff, you just go for the bad stuff because it gives you a false sense of superiority to laugh at said bad comics and with time you'll immerse so much in them that you'll no longer be able to distinguish bad writing from good writing.
I love Marville and have every issue, I thought it was fascinating
It used to be that these comics were extreme exceptions and that's why we made fun of them.
Now they're the norm, which saps all the fun out of it and is just depressing lol. So it really does just become a waste of time at some point.
>Now they're the norm
This, unfortunately.
I don't have time for bad comics, but I do have time for you, Cinemaphile.